Adaday 2017 conference: Challenges and perspectives in data journalism
On 10 October, the Adaday 2017 conference will be held in the Media Lab Prado auditorium entitled: “Challenges and perspectives in data journalism”. It takes place within the Encuentro Aporta 2017 programme, which this year is celebrating its seventh edition. Coinciding with Ada Lovelace day, the first female programmer in history, this conference will deal with innovation, training and perspectives in data journalism and will go into detail on women in IT, paying special attention to making the work of women in the world of IT more visible, a subject very relevant to data journalism.
The aims of this debate and analysis conference are to define the characteristics of relevant journalism projects within the field of data journalism, mainly developed by women, and to identify data journalism as an ally of public policies and a key instrument for creating public value and fuelling the innovation system. Furthermore, the conference aims to highlight the need for data and, specifically, quality public data to be able to conduct quality data journalism. Finally, it also aims to propose actions to be able to accelerate the development of data journalism in our country.
The conference has been structured into two discussion panels. The first of them, “Women and data journalism”, chaired by Asunción Bernárdez, Director of the Institute of Feminist Research at the Faculty of Information Sciences (UCM) will start at 18:00. Regarding speakers, Carmen Galdón from Ciudad de las mujeres, Patricia Horrillo from Editatonas of Wikiesfera, Montserrat Boix, head of gender at UGT-RTVE and Marta Verde, programmer and artist, Fefa Vila, socióloga especialista en Estudios Feministas y Estudios Culturales, directora artística de El porvenir de la revuelta, Mabel Delgado, de PyLadiesMadrid, Sara Gil Casanova, física y divulgadora científica, Akelarre Ciberfeminista y su kit de autodefensa ciberfeminista y Sara Román Navarro, departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática de la UCM, will participate in this debate.
The second panel is entitled “Innovation, training and perspectives in data journalism” and its aim is to propose actions to be able to accelerate the development of data journalism in our country. Regarding speakers, Olaya Argüeso, coordinator of the Data Journalism Master’s Degree, Research and Visualisation of the Editorial Unit/URJC, María Zuil from El Confidencial, Millán Berzosa, Head of Spain and Portugal at Google News Lab, Victoria Anderica, open data for the Madrid City Council, Adolfo Antón Bravo, coordinator at DataLab (the MediaLab Prado data laboratory), and Yolanda Quintana, portavoz de la Plataforma en Defensa de la Libertad de Información. Dicho debate será moderado por la periodista de datos Ana Isabel Cordobés, will participate in this debate. It will be chaired by the data journalist Ana Isabel Cordobés.
The conference will be transmitted via streaming and videos of the debates will be published online. You can also follow the debate in social networks with hashtags #ald17 #adaday2017 and # Aporta2017.
